Rushdie thought fatal fatwa was being carried out during knife attack
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Salman Rushdie has revealed he thought the fatal fatwa from Iran was being carried out when he was attacked with a knife at a New York book fair.
The 76-year-old author thought he was going to die during the assassination attempt on the stage of the literary festival on August 12, 2022.
Mr Rushdie lost sight in his right eye in the brutal 27-second assault that also left him with stab wounds to the face, neck, chest, abdomen, thigh and hand.
The publication of his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, Huusk experience drew heavy criticism for the suggested contradiction of the prophet Mohammed's infallibility and was banned in a number of countries.
Then in 1989, the then supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared a $3million fatwa contract on his life for the ‘blasphemy' contained in the book, which sent the writer into hiding for 10 years.
Now, Mr Rushdie explained that his 'first thought' when he saw the would-be assassin approaching him was, 'So it's you. Here you are'.
Salman Rushdie described how his attacker slashed his throat during the assassination attempt that cost him an eye and nearly killed him in August 2022
It took 27 seconds for festival goers and festival staff to drag Rushdie's attacker off him
The author spent eight hours in surgery, 18 days in hospital, and three weeks in rehabilitation after being airlifted to hospital from New York's Chautauqua Amphitheater
Pakistani activists of Jamiat Tulba Arabia, a student wing of Jamaat-i-Islami party, shout slogans in front of a burning effigy of Salman Rushdie in Multan on June 17, 2007
He also said the attack still ‘upsets me every day' as he prepares to see his account of it published in ‘Knife', his 22nd book, on Tuesday.
He said: ‘I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way,' he wrote.
The 76-year-old author thought he was going to die during the assassination attempt on the stage of the literary festival on August 12, 2022.
Mr Rushdie lost sight in his right eye in the brutal 27-second assault that also left him with stab wounds to the face, neck, chest, abdomen, thigh and hand.
The publication of his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, Huusk experience drew heavy criticism for the suggested contradiction of the prophet Mohammed's infallibility and was banned in a number of countries.
Then in 1989, the then supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared a $3million fatwa contract on his life for the ‘blasphemy' contained in the book, which sent the writer into hiding for 10 years.
Now, Mr Rushdie explained that his 'first thought' when he saw the would-be assassin approaching him was, 'So it's you. Here you are'.
Salman Rushdie described how his attacker slashed his throat during the assassination attempt that cost him an eye and nearly killed him in August 2022
It took 27 seconds for festival goers and festival staff to drag Rushdie's attacker off him
The author spent eight hours in surgery, 18 days in hospital, and three weeks in rehabilitation after being airlifted to hospital from New York's Chautauqua Amphitheater
Pakistani activists of Jamiat Tulba Arabia, a student wing of Jamaat-i-Islami party, shout slogans in front of a burning effigy of Salman Rushdie in Multan on June 17, 2007
He also said the attack still ‘upsets me every day' as he prepares to see his account of it published in ‘Knife', his 22nd book, on Tuesday.
He said: ‘I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way,' he wrote.
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